Reply #11: My .02 cents [View All]

[realFedUp]

My .02 cents

Good things about this past election:
Higher voter registration numbers that have to be maintained and strengthened.
Better use of the Internet, on line groups and money raising by different and more creative methods.
More inclusive use of the grassroots (really energized by Dean’s campaign)
More communication tools, opinion-makers (mostly out of the mainstream media though and speaking to the choir) Find ways to get those tools to people who aren’t plugged in.

Bad things about this past election:
More rampant voter fraud, suppression, no paper trail on voting machines, longer lines to wait to vote and partisan Secretaries of State etc.

I support:
-Dean for head of DNC
-Removing the power of the Democratic party from the DLCers
-Having a summit with leaders who oppose what Bush Inc. is doing to this country before any more decisions are made. Include the heads of progressive Christian, Muslim, Jewish communities as well as political, business, environmental groups. Men and women need a seat at the table to decide the future….not the ones who have been doing business as usual.

-Some real and public changes need to be made in how the party is leading itself to keep a lot of us from lapsing into apathy or forming a third party (not a Green or Indie one either)

I don’t support a Kerry/Edwards rerun in ’08.
I don’t think either of them spoke pointedly or plainly about what the Dems could offer and why those solutions are different from the opposition. They didn’t speak in simple terms as to why the actions of this administration are leaving us all more vulnerable in our pocketbooks, cities and future. Deflate the wedge issues before they outgrow the real issues. Wedge issues seldom really affect everyone’s daily lives.

I don’t support pushing liberals in accepting a watered-down version of the rightwingnut platform to get some more votes. We do have justice, truth and right on our side of the fence and people who believe in those things must take a pronounced stand against Bush Inc. now.

I don’t know who I would support at this point in ’08.

I am a fiscal conservative…a social liberal…a woman, a Christian, who believes that everyone should have equal rights under the laws of America and that being a faithful Christian means doing unto others as you would want done to yourself…I want an affordable health care plan that anyone can buy into and that will include any doctor of one’s choice. I want corporations to pay their fair share of taxes and to be penalized when they don’t pay them due to off shoring.I don't support attacking another country unless first attacked and that the wisest use of our anatomies are our brains. I don’t want tax cuts for the very wealthy subsidized by the middle class. I want alternate energy sources used more predominantly now and less dependence on oil and natural gas. I love people in red, blue and purple states as well as those in the rest of the world and think we should be united in our commonality in wishing to live free lives, to love, pray to our own creators in private and respectful ways, to use our talents in beneficial ways, raise healthy children in clean environments. Call me a liberal, a child of God and a member of the world community.

and a DUer :-)